EARTHQUAKE

HAZARDS
  EARTHQUAKE
The perceptible shaking of
the surface of the Earth,
resulting from sudden
release of energy in the
Earth’s crust that creates
seismic waves.
TYPES OF EARTHQUAKE

TECTONIC

VOLCANIC
 TECTONIC
 Earthquake
produces by sudden
movement along
faults and plate
boundaries. 
 VOLCANIC

Earthquakes produces
by movement of
magma beneath
volcanoes.
WAYS OF DESCRIBING
THE STRENGTH OF AN
EARTHQUAKE
  INTENSITY
Perceived strength of an
earthquake based on
relative effect to people
and structures; generally
higher near the epicenter.
 MAGNITUDE
Based on instrumentally
derived information and
correlated strength with the
amount of total energy
released at the earthquake’s
point of origin.
 SEISMOGRAPHS
Instruments used to
record the motion of
the ground during an
earthquake.
EARTHQUAKES
HAZARDS
 GROUND SHAKING OR GROUND
MOTION
It refers to what we feel when
energy built up by the application
of stress to the lithosphere is
released by faulting during
earthquake. Technically, it refers
to the disruptive up and down
and sideways motion experienced
during an earthquake.
Most natural earthquakes are
cased by sudden slippage
along fault zone.

A fault is a fracture on which

one body of rock slides past
another. 
NORMAL FAULT
REVERSE FAULT
STRIKE-SLIP FAULT